Women's roles
- Created by: belinda
- Created on: 27-05-14 17:13
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- Women's roles
- Nora
- Treated like a child
- "Nora" not Leonora
- Not really her home
- "The front door bell rings" (no key)
- Can't borrow money (no responsibility)
- "a wife can't borrow without her husbands consent"
- Wife and mother
- "First and foremost, you are a wife and a mother"
- Trapped in the roles
- "Nora dances more and more wildly"
- There for entertainment
- "The pretty little sky-lark would sing all day"
- A doll in a doll's house - constricted by male owners
- "I have been your doll wife...I was daddy's doll child"
- Treated like a child
- Mrs Linde
- Looked after her mother and brothers
- "I had a helpless mother and two younger brothers"
- Had to work - but enjoyed it
- "give me somebody...to work for"
- Had to marry for money
- "not even a broken heart"
- Equal in her relationship with Krogstad
- "Us two castaways joining forces"
- Looked after her mother and brothers
- Anne Marie
- Can only be a mother with a man
- "a poor girl's been in trouble...he didn't help"
- Can only be a mother with a man
- Kate
- She is a mother
- Scripted as "Mother" not Kate
- Dutiful wife - willing keeps Joe's secret
- "For you, Kate"//"I know, darling"
- Is fragile as a women
- "What's mother going to say?"
- In reality she's in charge
- "Tell me...what do I do?"
- She's intelligent aware of everything
- "[With an undercurrent of observation]"
- She is a mother
- Ann
- Treated as a possession
- "She's one item he's not going to grab
- Intelligent and works
- "How's that for three weeks' salary?"
- Not concerned about money
- "It wouldn't matter to me"
- Treated as a possession
- Sue and Lydia
- Lydia is intelligent but this isn't part of her role as a woman
- "I was just reading..."
- Bein a wife/mother is part of growing up
- "it was one, two three - You've been away a long time
- A man shouldn't owe a woman
- "You can never owe somebody something without resenting them"
- Lydia is intelligent but this isn't part of her role as a woman
- Nora
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